Approach
collaborative, self-reflection, focused on change
Psychological therapy is a collaborative process grounded in curiosity, care, and the pursuit of meaningful change. Together, we explore your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and life experiences to uncover the patterns that may be holding you back. Through self-reflection and guided insight, you’ll develop a clearer understanding of yourself and create new ways of approaching life’s challenges.
Growth Through Self-Understanding
Therapy offers a space to pause, reflect, and engage with your inner world more deeply.
By examining how past experiences have shaped your ways of thinking, coping, and relating, it becomes possible to recognise unhelpful emotional patterns and develop more empowering strategies for change.
Psychological Therapy
Professional Support for Mental Well-being
Psychological therapy offers structured, evidence-based interventions designed to help individuals improve their mental health, emotional well-being, and overall psychological functioning. Delivered by trained professionals—such as chartered counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists, —this form of therapy provides a safe and supportive space to explore challenges and develop effective coping strategies.
What is Psychological Therapy?
A Safe Space for Insight, Growth, and Change
Psychological therapy is a confidential, collaborative process where individuals work with a qualified therapist to explore their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in a safe and supportive environment. Using evidence-based techniques, it fosters self-awareness, emotional resilience, and long-term personal growth.
How Can Psychological Therapy Help?
Psychological therapy offers more than symptom relief — it provides a reflective space to explore what lies beneath persistent emotional and relational struggles. Through a collaborative, process-oriented approach, therapy helps you make sense of the deeper patterns that shape your inner world.
Understand Underlying Emotional Difficulties
Explore the deeper roots of anxiety, low mood, and distress — often shaped by early life experiences, attachment dynamics, and internalised beliefs.Identify and Shift Relational Patterns
Recognise repeating dynamics in personal and professional relationships that contribute to emotional discomfort or disconnection.Reevaluate Unconscious Coping Strategies
Understand how protective behaviours developed over time — and whether they are still helpful or now limiting your growth.Build Insight Through Reflective Practice
Connect past experiences with present challenges using collaborative formulation and guided psychological reflection.Support Sustainable, Meaningful Change
Move beyond surface-level strategies toward deeper emotional understanding and lasting transformation.
Who Is Psychological Therapy For?
Psychological therapy is helpful for anyone seeking to better understand themselves, manage emotional difficulties, recover from trauma, or build healthier relationships. Whether you’re facing specific challenges or seeking personal growth, therapy offers a space to reflect, reset, and rebuild.
Take the First Step
If you’re looking for professional support to improve your mental well-being, psychological therapy can help. Reach out today to explore how therapy could work for you.
Getting Started
Taking the First Step
Beginning therapy is a personal decision — and a courageous one. It’s important to feel confident in your therapist and the process ahead. My approach is thoughtful, grounded, and respectful — offering a collaborative space to explore whether we are a good clinical fit.
Initial Consultation
If a suitable appointment is available, I will reserve it while we arrange an initial consultation. This first meeting is a professional conversation to explore your needs, clarify expectations, and assess whether my approach aligns with your goals. It’s also a space for your questions and for me to determine whether your concerns fall within my clinical expertise.
Before We Meet
You are welcome to explore the website ahead of time to understand my ethos and approach. Please note I do not currently offer therapy for issues related to substance misuse, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, or neurodevelopmental conditions (ASD/ADHD), as these are best supported through specialist services.
What Happens Next?
If we agree to proceed, we’ll arrange a regular weekly session time. Therapy is reviewed periodically to ensure it remains effective and responsive to your evolving needs.
My Approach to Clinical Assessment
Assessment is an integral part of psychological therapy. It allows us to explore what has brought you to therapy, understand your wider life context, and co-create a working formulation that guides our sessions.
Clinical assessment focuses on:
Identifying core difficulties and their impact
Understanding the emotional, relational, and historical context of your challenges
Exploring patterns of thought, behaviour, and coping
Building a shared understanding of what needs to change — and how to get there
Assessment is not a one-time event. It evolves as we work together and forms the basis for purposeful, therapy, focused on you.
What to Expect in the Initial Sessions
During the first few sessions, we’ll explore the following areas:
Presenting Difficulties – What’s brought you to therapy and how it’s affecting your life
Life History & Attachment – Significant past experiences, especially in early relationships
Relationship Patterns – How you connect with others and how those dynamics play out
Personality & Coping Styles – Your ways of managing stress, conflict, and emotion
Previous Therapy – Past experiences in therapy and what was (or wasn’t) helpful
Well-being & Risk – Ensuring psychological safety throughout the process
Therapy Goals – What you want to focus on and achieve through this work
A Collaborative, Thoughtful Approach
Therapy is most effective when it’s rooted in a strong therapeutic relationship. My approach is relational and integrative — drawing on Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) to explore both current struggles and their emotional roots.
A key part of the work involves building a collaborative psychological formulation — a shared map of your emotional world that helps us:
Understand repeating relational patterns
Identify internal conflicts or self-critical thoughts
Explore the impact of early experiences
Evaluate current coping strategies and whether they still serve you
This formulation makes therapy clear, focused, and responsive to what emerges over time. It also ensures that your work is personalised, meaningful, and goal-oriented.
Above all, this is your space. You’re the expert on your experience — and therapy honours that. My role is to offer insight, curiosity, and a safe space to explore change with care and intention.
Approaches Offered
The work we do together is tailored, integrative, and rooted in psychological depth. I draw primarily from:
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
Integrative Psychotherapy
Existential Counselling Psychology
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is a structured, time-limited therapy that helps identify and change unhelpful patterns. Through recognition, reformulation, and revision, it explores how past experiences shape behaviors and works toward developing healthier ways of thinking and relating.
Existential psychotherapy
Existential psychotherapy explores themes of meaning, freedom, choice, and responsibility, helping individuals confront life's uncertainties and find personal purpose. It encourages self-awareness and authentic living by addressing anxieties around death, isolation, and identity.
Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)
Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) helps individuals better understand their own and others’ thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, improving emotional regulation and relationships. It focuses on the present moment, enhancing self-awareness and reducing impulsivity through a structured, transparent therapeutic approach.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) helps individuals develop self-compassion to reduce shame, self-criticism, and distress. By integrating mindfulness, psychology, and neuroscience, it fosters emotional regulation and resilience through a compassionate mindset.
Integrative Psychotherapy
Integrative psychotherapy is a flexible, holistic approach that combines various therapeutic models to address emotional, cognitive, and behavioral challenges. By tailoring treatment to each individual, it provides a dynamic, personalized path to self-awareness and change.
Clinical Supervision
With over two decades of clinical experience, I have worked extensively in NHS secondary care, specializing in anxiety, depression, and personality disorders. As an accredited clinical supervisor, I have guided and mentored psychologists across diverse settings, offering expert supervision grounded in evidence-based practice.
Arrange your initial consultation today
Take the first step toward meaningful change.
Call, email, or fill out the contact form to arrange your initial consultation and begin your journey toward deeper self-awareness, emotional clarity, and lasting transformation.